Perkins’ new duties include coordinating marketing and promotion of all library programs, services and resources and direct responsibility for ads, news releases, media appearances and The Source, the library’s monthly newsletter.

She is originally from Baton Rouge and has a bachelor of arts degree and a master of art in mass communication from Southern University. Perkins has worked for the library for more than five years, where she holds direct responsibility for composing, editing and producing The Source and serves as in-house reporter for “Beyond the Stacks” in the library’s monthly TV show, “The Library Road Show.”